I've been in for the most part today, save for the foray to pick up some chinese, nursing wounds and exhaustion from the week prior. So what did I do today? Watched this:
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Now, I'm not sure how much you know about the film. The director/writer: Martin McDonagh, of In Bruges fame, among others. Now, I was 50/50 on that film as well, what with the film's ham-handed usage of midgets for personal redemption, and Ralph Fiennes essentially doing a knockoff of Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast. And frankly, I'm not sure how I feel about this one, either.
Watch it, come back.
Are you done? Well, the parts seemed genuine enough, although the boy annoyed the hell out of me. And frankly I don't know how earned his role was. Also, the ending, while a nice bout of understatement, ultimately rubbed me the wrong way in that it undercut something that seemed like a genuine attempt at reaching something deeper, but instead lapsed into something of a punchline.
Now, I'm not going to say that McDonagh doesn't have potential, and he probably could make himself a very decent legacy if he stays with it (stupid comment, I understand), but his voice seems to have a certain sense of immaturity and inconfidence in the way that he finishes his products. This one: I would have liked to see a rewrite of the child. He was the only unbelievable aspect. Also, the cow story, for all its gloriousness, was essentially a tack on and unnecessary, and ultimately tipped the film.
There's a voice here, most assuredly, but (and here's the context of the post) I'm not going to spend $60+ of my hard-earned dough to see a production from this writer, as uneven as they seem to be. Oh yeah, the production, currently on Broadway: A Behanding in Spokane. Sounds titillating, but I suspect yet again he will not have control of his material.
Now, talk amongst yourselves. I should sleep. I'm not dead yet.
